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  • Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases
    Metz, Johan A. J. ; Boldin, Barbara, 1976-
    The time-honored paradigm in the theory of virulence evolution assumes a positive relation between infectivity and harmfulness. However, the etiology of respiratory diseases yields a negative ... relation, with diseases of the lower respiratory tract being less infective and more harmful. We explore the evolutionary consequences in a simple model incorporating cross-immunity between disease strains that diminishes with their distance in the respiratory tract, assuming that docking rate follows the match between the local mix of cell surface types and the pathogen’s surface and cross-immunity the similarity of the pathogens’ surfaces. The assumed relation between fitness components causes virulent strains infecting the lower airways to evolve to milder more transmissible variants. Limited cross-immunity, generally, causes a readiness to diversify that increases with host population density. In respiratory diseases that diversity will be highest in the upper respiratory tract. More tentatively, emerging respiratory diseases are likely to start low and virulent, to evolve up, and become milder. Our results extend to a panoply of realistic generalizations of the disease’s ecology to including additional epitope axes. These extensions allow us to apply our results quantitatively to elucidate the differences in diversification between rhino- and coronavirus caused common colds.
    Vir: Evolution : international journal of organic evolution. - ISSN 0014-3820 (2023, str. 1-17)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2023
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 165475587

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    https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpad145/7244784
    https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad145
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